- It is a Assurance activity,emphasizing on the standards and procedures to be followed while developing an application - It is a Preventive action taken before hand to ensure the product that developed are defect free
- It is a systematic actions necessary to provide enough confidence that a product or service will satisfy the given requirements for quality.
Quality Control
- It is a Corrective action - Inspection if the developed application follows the standards and procedures by using the checklists.
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What is the difference between quality assurance and quality control?
Quality Assurance :
- It is a Assurance activity,emphasizing on the standards and procedures to be followed while developing an application - It is a Preventive action taken before hand to ensure the product that developed are defect free
- It is a systematic actions necessary to provide enough confidence that a product or service will satisfy the given requirements for quality.
Quality Control
- It is a Corrective action - Inspection if the developed application follows the standards and procedures by using the checklists.
RE: what is the difference between quality assurance and quality control?
With reference to some documents i posting the details about Quality Assurance.
Software QA involves the entire software development PROCESS - Monitoring and improving the process, making sure that any agreed-upon standards and procedures are followed, and ensuring that problems are found and dealth with. It is oreinted to 'Prevention'.
RE: what is the difference between quality assurance and quality control?
QC/Testing - Is a process of evaluating a software system against the
predefined standards (requirements) with intension to find the defects.
QA - It deals with creation, implementation and continuous improvement of
processes employed in all phases of system development life cycle i.e
Planning
Analysis
Designing
Coding/Building
Testing
Deployment/Implementation
Maintained.
QA focuses on completeness and thoroughness in the methods and practices
followed for creating a software product, where as testing verifies the
incompleteness and deficiencies of the same product.
RE: what is the difference between quality assurance and quality control?
Quality Assurance: Simply it is "Am I building the product right way?" Process oriented Process to bring the quality product Example - interview, walkthourghs, audits... etc.
Quality Control Simply it is "Am I building the right product?" Product orieneted. Validating the application Example - Testing an application